William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
